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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1912
Page
7
A Louisville Courier Journal excerpt quotes a speaker asking about wealth and ambition to start a chicken business once financially secure. The dialogue hints at plans and practical aims behind accumulating wealth.
Adam surveys animals and comments with satisfaction that there will never be a shortage in the supply of party emblems. The remark emphasizes abundance and continuity in symbolism within the scene.
A brief exchange reveals a worker named Gam has secured employment and explains his new duties. He tells his boss that he will be washing his wife as part of his tasks, illustrating the era’s casual labor talk and domestic shorthand.
A periodic guide outlines a simple nightly routine for busy women to improve complexion. It recommends milk washes with oatmeal paste, almond oil or cold cream, fuller's earth powder, and brief facial exercises while lying flat. The article stresses regular nightly use and cautions that hard pleasure can harm skin.
A pale gray serge gown features a Ruselan coat with the banque eased to the stitched band. Edges and reverses are stitched, collar in pastel blue, lawn frills at the wrists. Plain skirt, ground length. Gray pedal straw bowler trimmed with a button and feather. Materials: four and a half yards serge, half yard blue cloth, eight buttons, five yards silk lining.
Naval experts weigh removing armor to cut weight and boost propulsion as gun power surges. Historical tests and era armor depths show high power shells penetrating armor, shifting focus to offensive strength over protection in future warships.
Sir Walter Scott's black and white tweed trousers were discussed at Harwich during the Textile congress. The first pieces were black and white. colored checks emerged after a defective white batch was dyed brown to hide flaws, followed by black and green and blue. London buyers quickly embraced the new color range and reversible skirts allowed both blue and clan tartan looks.
Edward Kones in Sullivan county survived a house strike that tore hair from his head and damaged his scalp and internal tissues. The Philadelphia North American notes the event as a sensational lightning incident with visible hair loss and injury.
Roman Palatine excavations uncover pre Roman remains including 12 ancient elevators. One lift descends into the oldest known city and is being restored to working order for the Archaeological Congress.
William H. Witte proposer at Johns Hopkins Botanical Gardens outlines a system to recording sea temperature as ships pass ice fields. Water flows through a bow tank while three devices log changes via thermometers a copper lever system and alcohol tubes linked to a diaphragm and pen. All readings are viewable in the pilot house.
Five fishing launches tried to tow the enormous fifty foot whale netted near Santa Cruz. Nets and lines broke, the crew aborted the attempt and the whale remained at large in Fred Perez’s nets near Santa Cruz.
A humorous exchange features Bachelor Bookwedder reading an old maid’s notes on avoiding marriage. He riffs that a vain game rooster, a rag-chewing goat, an airborne aeroplane, and a perpetually broke automobile capture the folly of matrimonial pursuit.
Silk fabrics called bilks have been popular this summer. For long storage do not wrap in white paper since chloride of lime used to whiten paper can spoil silk colors.
Instructions claim stockings last longer if shrunk before wear. Wash in warm water with a little ammonia, wring out and dry to achieve the result.
The article notes black painted English furniture being paired with background chintzes and cretonnes. It highlights garlands flower baskets festoon medallions as common decorative motifs and suggests printed linens with light backgrounds to complement the look. It also covers matching old designs in chintzes and linens and using fabrics for loose cushions for cane and rush seating.
The article contrasts two golf styles, noting the championship players never ball hunt. It describes players with or without caddies, moving in groups, often spending time scanning suspected areas. Only after finding the ball does play resume, with many failing to reach nine holes before lunch.
A brief item notes a tossed remark about two girls resembling each other led to ongoing hostility. The Philadelphia Record frame implies social teasing and reputational hurt in a small community scene.
A couple riding down town on Fifth Avenue discuss jewelry size and cost. The woman asks about sapphire and diamond lengths for the little finger and whether larger stones are more expensive, while the man notes price depends on stone size.
A classic ad touting Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for coughs colds croup and bronchitis. It claims physician approval and long trust with thousands of families keeping it at home. Sold for seventy years.
Advertisement notes doctors favor Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for Cleveland colds and recommends Ayer’s Pills to ease constipation. Claims the medicines work best when bowels move, and identifies J. C. Ayer & Co. of Lowell Massachusetts as makers.
A wife reports her husband disappeared after a sample match at a department store. A witness claims he was seen yesterday at the third counter of the fourteenth aisle and heading toward the fourteenth counter of the third aisle. Other casual notes mention Cre Hall Blue laundering twice as much.
Mrs Bacon notes phonograph language study can teach many tongues. Mrs Ebert adds her neighbor’s device revealed new phrases her husband now uses, sparking curiosity about lessons at home.
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